Sunday

[susandennis]

The baseball game is early today (10 am). We are on a losing streak so really it's better to get the loss over with and have the rest of the day to try and forget it.

Also today is bandage change day!! The very last one.

I feel like my next physical challenge will be dental. I am a card carrying dental phobic who will do anything to avoid the dentist. I have 1960's era fillings that are cracking my teeth and have several that are just one meal away from disintegration, I'm sure. I live in dread fear of some tooth event that will cause me pain AND cause me to go to the dentist. I've been very lucky and surely my luck can't hold forever.But, for now, denial is my goto.

All my routine chores are done so nothing on tap today. Although as I look around the living room here, it could use a bit of a tidy up. I can do that during the ballgame.

Looking out at the week, getting my stitches out is really the only event on the calendar. It is really lovely to know that all the days are mine to do with as the spur of the moment claims. I do miss work sometimes. I miss being productive and having a purpose and being successful and fixing it when I'm not. I really do. But I am definitely now committed to team retirement.

Now I think I'll go clean out someone's litter box, then take a shower and get dressed. And do my last bandage change!

This is kitty-speak for Did You See That???!!

Comments

[sherlockishere]

Dental phobic here, too. The result of a pathological orthodontist in my youth. He never believed I was really in pain.

However, my coping strategy has been the opposite: to go to the dang dentist every 6 months like clockwork, because I'm so afraid I'll develop some horrible dental problem that will be a nightmare to have treated.

And yeah, those 1960s fillings.... most of mine have cracked, eventually necessitating the removal of a bunch of molars. I'm in line for implants..... but only if I can work up the courage to go back.

[susandennis]

What a genius way to deal with the issue - head on. I'm so impressed. And implants. I cannot imagine. If I outlive my teeth, I'm going dentures - I've already decided. I'd just rather not outlive them!

[arlie]

FWIW, I've been very happy with my two implants. But I'm fortunate in that I have only the usual level of distress around dentists, rather than the extra special level you two have.

[arlie]

You have my sympathy on the physical challenges. Empathy too; the warrantee on my body seems to have run out ;-)

[(Anonymous)]

Hi, this is Sally. I was in the same position as you with regard to teeth, mainly a lot of barely-hanging-on crowns and cracked teeth from work done in the 70s. Fast forward to last year, when I had to get fillings and two crown replacements. Not saying it's painless, but it is a whole lot more tolerable now. For me, the big difference was having bite support thingies which didn't gag me. And, with good anesthesia (local for me) and higher-speed drills, it's okay. Not fun, but okay.

[susandennis]

Hi Sally! My spine twitches when I see the words high speed drill :) I do appreciate the encouragement. Hopefully, I'll never need to call on it!

[kaishin108]

I hope you can find a good dentist. It does sound like you are a tad overdue. I just got two fillings done...

[mollywheezy]

I am terrified of the dentist too! I actually didn't go for 20 years . . . then went to a friend who is a dentist, but we had a HUGE falling out, as in I was having nightmares of her shooting me, so that didn't help my fear of dentists and I haven't been back to one. But it's only been 3 or 4 years this time . . .

LOL at Biggie! He has such an expressive face.

[days_unfolding]

I'm also dental-phobic (due to a dentist when I was a kid who drilled without anesthesia), but I found a dentist that I like after a tooth broke. I'm dreading finding a new dentist after I move.

[msconduct]

We have a wonderful local dentist practice here called Dentistry for Chickens. I don't have a dental phobia, but a friend has horrible gag reflex problems and goes there and they're absolutely fantastic with her. And our borders opened today! Which are you more phobic of, dentists or long haul flights?:)

[susandennis]

hahahaa no fear of long haul flights but i'm just too lazy now.

we have/had a chicken dentist here at the university and i went - they had a lot to learn about dental phobia. i didn't go back. but that was 20 years ago or more.

[roasted_beets]

You really want to have a relationship in place with a dentist so when the inevitable happens on a Saturday afternoon, you can get pain meds with a phone call. Modern dentistry is really wonderful (other than the cost) and shouldn't be painful. Having a hot, young dentist is a plus. 😉

[rsc]

We are on a losing streak so really it's better to get the loss over with and have the rest of the day to try and forget it.


Well, another (and better) way to "forget" the losing streak is to end it, as the Mariners did.

Unlike the Red Sox, who just managed the seemingly impossible feat of losing a series to the Baltimore Orioles. I just keep muttering "It could be worse, you could live in Cincinnati."

[susandennis]

I saw your results and was sad. Good thing we have the Reds.

[luscious_purple]

I am the Queen of Dental Phobia. The stories I could tell. I need serious drugs to keep from lashing out and/or gagging (I have a strong gagging reflex; some days I gag on my vitamin pill).

[cdayzee]

I know what you mean about dental phobia! I have it as well. Lots of time spent in the torture chair as a kid, none of it was pleasant. It all started when my baby molars had to have caps until my permanent teeth came in. Then it was surgery in hospital.

Yikes - it definitely sounds like your old fillings need to be addressed, as much as you don't want to. My molars were initially done in the 70s & one day I was eating Cornnuts & one broke off. I was scolded then for having fillings that old because I guess they contain harmful materials by today's standards.

lol - I have photos like that of a dog I had! He was going deaf at the time but had somehow heard the shutter sound of me taking a pic & had turned to look at me. He was waiting for the kids to come home from school.

[wpadmirer]

I love the look on your cat's face! I'm glad your Mariners broke their losing streak. (Sorry for starting it.) The Rays are just decimated by injuries and Omicron right now. (sigh) It's sad.

[susandennis]

On the one hand, that's terrible about all your missing guys. On the other hand, could their recovery start on Monday, the 9th plz? Thx.

[wpadmirer]

HA HA HA! No. (grin)